ELEMENTS OF ART

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ELEMENTS OF ART

• Line
• Shape
• Form

• Texture
• Space
• Value

• Color

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Principles of Design

• Balance
• Contrast
• Dominance Subordination
• Rhythm
• Movement

• Emphasis/Focal point
• Unity
• Proportion/Scale
• Variation

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LESSON 1Lines, Texture, Movement

• Art 1
• Ms. Villegas
• September 2008
• La Mirada High School

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Art Vocabulary

• Line
• Organic lines
• Geometric lines
• Texture

• 5. Implied texture
• 6. Actual texture
• 7. Movement
• 8. Contour

Homework Write or Type Copy down art vocabulary
and look up definitions. Turn in Mon. 9/8
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LINE An element of art. A moving point in space.

Types of Lines

• vertical
• horizontal
• diagonal
• Straight
• curved
• thick or wide,

• interrupted (dotted, dashed, broken)
• blurred or fuzzy,
• Parallel
• Hatching
• Meandering
• spiraling.

• Thin
• Curly

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• Lines may create an outline or contour.
• May define a silhouette.
• Create patterns, or movement, and the illusion of
  mass or volume.
• It may be two-dimensional (as with pencil on
  paper) three-dimensional (as with wire) or
  implied (the edge of a shape or form).

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Texture

• An element of art. The surface quality or "feel"
  of an object
• smoothness, roughness, softness.

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• Textures may be Actual (tactile)
• or Implied (visual).
• Actual textures can be felt with the fingers
• Implied textures are suggested by an artist in
  the painting of different areas of a picture
  often in representing drapery, metals, rocks,
  hair, etc.

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Describe these Textures
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Vincent Van Gogh, Starry Night
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MOVEMENT

• A principle of design, it can be a way of
  combining elements of art to produce the look of
  action.
• The arrangement of the parts of an image to
  create a sense of motion.
• By using lines, shapes, forms, and textures that
  cause the eye to move over the work.

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How does Van Gogh convey a sense of Movement in
his painting? Where can we see Movement?
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Kathe Kollwitz, Germanys Children are Starving
Describe these kinds of Lines
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Wassily Kandinsky, Composition VIII
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ExerciseLine Drawing
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• On a blank piece of paper do a drawing that uses
  as many different kinds of lines as you can think
  of.
• Start anywhere and fill the page as much as
  possible.
• Use a black ball point pen.
• Challenge Do not draw any letters, numbers,
  faces, objects, symbols, icons- JUST LINES!

• Try to show MOVEMENT and TEXTURE with your LINES
  like Van Gogh and Kandinsky.